University of Ghana
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For support for the African Humanities Association (AHA) for enhancing humanities research in Africa
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
36 months
Description
The African Humanities Association (AHA) is a pan-African scholarly organization based at the University of Ghana and founded by alumni of the African Humanities Program (AHP), a long-term initiative supported by the Corporation and administered by the American Council of Learned Societies. AHA aims to promote African-led humanities research and leadership across the continent. With Corporation support, AHA’s Enhancing Humanities Research in Africa (EHURA) initiative will award postdoctoral fellowships, host residency and mentorship sessions, organize webinars on academic publishing, artificial intelligence in the humanities, and research ethics, and facilitate mentorship on academic advancement for women. Corporation funding will also support the launch of a peer-reviewed journal on the humanities in Africa.
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As a final grant for support of doctoral and early-career fellowships with expansion to four partner universities in Ghana and the region (Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa (BANGA-Africa) - Phase 4)
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
The University of Ghana, Legon (UG), one of the oldest universities in West Africa, has strived to become a leading research-intensive institution by increasing faculty with terminal degrees and growing research funding and publications with support from the Corporation.UG has also aimed to strengthen universities and academic capacities in sub-Saharan Africa more broadly. With the final grant for Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa, UG will further improve research excellence and productivity at UG and four universities in Ghana and elsewhere in West Africa.The grant will support PhD recruitment and training, capacity-building workshops, mentorships, research collaborations, and publications.
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For support of early-career fellowships and a pan-African doctoral academy deploying diaspora linkages
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
27 months
Description
As the nation’s leading university, University of Ghana (UG), with partial support from the Corporation, has been enhancing its faculty’s credentials and research productivity, resulting in over 77 percent of faculty with PhDs. This effort has been aligned with Ghana’s national policy and the projected increase of the country’s tertiary education sector from the current 18.8 percent to 40 percent by 2030. With continued Corporation support, UG will stay the course of early-career faculty advancement and research output by offering an array of programs, including doctoral completion grants, postdoctoral and team research grants, and doctoral academy training schools with a focus on basic and applied sciences and health sciences.
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For transregional research on the changing nature of precarious work in Africa and the Arab region
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
0 months
Description
In 2020, the Corporation issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) responding to the rise in multidisciplinary and multiregional research exposing critical challenges appearing across traditionally defined regions. The RFP is designed to support efforts within the social science and humanities communities in Africa and the Arab region to identify and sharpen their analysis of emerging phenomena. This multi-institutional project based at the University of Ghana will convene a transdisciplinary network of scholars to produce critical research on a major global trend: the precarity of work and informality of employment today. In collaboration with the American University in Cairo and the Makerere Institute of Social Research in Uganda, the project will aim to build a network of scholars by supporting research, workshops, a conference, publications, and a variety of media events. Corporation funds will contribute to these activities.
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For support of early-career, doctoral, and postdoctoral candidates and a pan-African doctoral academy deploying diaspora linkages
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
48 months
Description
Reflective of population growth, socio-economic development, and increased participation rates across sub-Saharan Africa, higher education enrollment in Ghana is growing at two percent annually. A new policy of providing free secondary education will further impact the sector in 2020, when University of Ghana’s (UG) first-year intake is projected to double. In addition to its own faculty development, UG is expected to provide academic staff for other universities to benefit the country. UG’s faculty profile has progressed significantly with support from the Corporation beginning in 2010. With continued support, UG will further improve the credentials and productivity of UG faculty through postdoctoral and doctoral training and research, international conference participation, and diaspora fellowships.
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For support of early career doctoral and postdoctoral candidates and a pan-African doctoral academy deploying diaspora linkages
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
58 months
Description
The University of Ghana (UG) has been pursuing an aggressive agenda to become a research-led institution over the last six years. Through support from the Corporation and other partners, UG has increased its faculty with Ph.D.s from under 50 percent to 66.5 percent, and its research output has quadrupled since 2000. UG seeks to consolidate its achievements by embedding its young faculty in the emerging research culture of the institution. The proposed project is seeking support for postdoctoral and doctoral training of the best performers in its current cohort along with renewal of its pan-African doctoral academy. The aim is to ensure that thirty Masters and thirty Ph.D. graduates in the Carnegie cohort begin their early careers entrenched in UG’s teaching and research culture, networked in global research communities, and able to supervise and practice desired leadership and engagement in academia.
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For accelerated Ph.D. Training through Diaspora Linkages
Date
Jun. 12, 2014
Duration
24 months
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As a final grant for postgraduate training and research programs to advance scholarship and improve the retention of African academics
Date
Sep. 13, 2012
Duration
72 months
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For building a local collection of books
Date
Dec. 13, 2012
Duration
12 months
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Toward a research commons at the University of Ghana Legon - Balme Library
Date
Jun. 03, 2010
Duration
41 months
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Toward postgraduate training and research programs to advance scholarship and improve the retention of African academics
Date
Sep. 16, 2010
Duration
24 months
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A one-time funding for engagement of an expert to improve the University's semester and course credit system
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
18 months
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For leveraging comparative strengths and competencies in the University of Ghana through information and communication technology
Date
Oct. 09, 2003
Duration
57 months